Harvest season is well underway!

Harvest season is well underway on the Funny Farm. We still have lots of zucchini, patty pan squash, cukes, green beans, and tomatoes. The greens herbs, peppers, and edible flowers are also still producing. Below, are pumpkin # 3 and 4. We're also harvesting loves of raspberry leaf for tea and the dominant garden berry are black berries. After verbally insulting my two eggplants for only turning out 1 eggplant all season, they promptly spit out the lovely one above, and now 7 more are growing! I shall have to remember to speak sternly to them from now on. (Although, I did remember to thank them for the one they made)

As summer winds down, we are taking advantage of the last of the sunshine. Last weekend, we went across the mountains for a musicfest in Leavenworth. We heard some great Northwest talent. One of the musicians was Anni's physical therapist. Great music Hunter! On Sunday, I went hiking with my pal Lisa on Tiger Mountain and then to Snoqualmie Falls. I also learned how to do track lighting installation. Today, we hit our local farmers' market for tree fruits and spicy peppers (which we don't grow) I also found some lovely handmade soaps and beautiful handcrafted cards by our friend and local artist , Danielle, The Crazy Card Lady. Tomorrow, we are off to our favorite apple farm, Jones Creek Farm, to pick apples for apple butter. Anni has been learning about apple in her home school programs and has her basket all ready to go!

And speaking of school, Alex is once again a mighty viking of Inglemoor. He and David went to the football games last night. Unfortunately, the mighty vikings were trounced by the more mighty and less brainy rebels. Ari is gearing up for the University of Washington to start, but she still has a couple of weeks of vacation time which she is using to check out all the student life activities. So far, she's thinking activity clubs and yoga. Anni has been very busy with her home school program and therapy activities. She's doing awesome!

David is busy tacking the honey-do-it list. This week's task: fix the washing machine, which starting groaning, then whining, and finally spun to its death. A family of five can not be long separated from a working washer. I'm busy as ever with the teaching, writing, chauffeuring of future farmers, yoga, dance, and figuring out what to do with all this wonderful funny farm produce. At this very moment, I'm baking a low-fat chocolate zucchini cake, another entrant in the Zucchini 100. It smells divine. Hmm, I think I need to go see if it's done. Laters!